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Douglas Northrop is a Professor of History and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan's College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA). He serves as Acting Director of the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia (WCEE) for the 2025-26 academic year, having previously been Associate Director since 2023 and a member of the WCEE Steering Committee. His affiliations include CMENAS (Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies), CREES (Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies), and the Global Islamic Studies Center.
- Ph.D. in History, Stanford University (1999)
- M.A. in Modern European History, Cambridge University (1991)
- B.A. in Russian, Political Science, and Mathematics, Williams College (1988)
Northrop specializes in the modern history of Central Asia, world history, environmental history, and the cultural dimensions of modern colonialism. His scholarship explores intersections of empire, gender, and environmental change, with a focus on Soviet-era Central Asia and global historical frameworks.
His publications include Veiled Empire: Gender and Power in Stalinist Central Asia (2004), which won the W. Bruce Lincoln Prize and Heldt Prize, and Four Days that Shook the World: Earthquakes and Empire on Russia’s Eurasian Frontier (forthcoming). He co-authored BIG IDEAS: A Guide to the History of Everything (2020) and edited the Oxford Handbook to Central Asian History.
- W. Bruce Lincoln Prize (2004)
- Heldt Prize (2004)
